| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| Stieglitz | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| communicate more powerfully than either | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| those that you are going to make. | |
| That's life! - John Sexton | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Adams |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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